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...Breslau and Gottingen. In 1922, after reading a biography of the 16th century mystic St. Teresa of Avila, Stein was baptized a Catholic. For eight years she taught at a convent school at Speyer, where she was known as an ascetic who rose early, wore patched linen clothes and knelt through three Masses a day. In 1934, after the Nazis banned Jews from academic posts, Edith Stein entered the Carmelite convent in Cologne. By 1938, with the Jewish pogroms in full sway, the order sent her to Echt...
...Jessica Hahn thing. He flatly denied it. He lied to me." Swaggart did nothing further until the February convention of National Religious Broadcasters, the trade association for radio-TV preachers. Swaggart was about to speak when the Rev. John Ankerberg, Southern Baptist proprietor of a weekly TV show, approached, knelt down and whispered to him that the Charlotte Observer was hot on the Bakker- Hahn story...
...innocently runs afoul of them still). Player considers himself more of an interpreter, like George Archer. Once, when his ball came to rest at the base of a tree, Archer summoned a referee and requested relief under the burrowing- animals statute. "What burrowing animals?" the official demanded. Archer knelt down and pointed in horror. "Ants...
...Baptist Church in Arlington, Va., recalls that North sat down next to him in a barber shop and joyously recounted how a few years before he had been contorted by wracking back pain while in the field with a group of officers. One of the officers, a fellow charismatic, knelt down before North and prayed fervently. Moments later, North reported, his backache vanished. "He has a personal relationship with Jesus Christ," says King. "It's a driving force in his life...
Objecting to both the form and substance of Veera's remarks, an opposition politician filed charges that Veera had offended the dignity of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. The allegations cost Veera his job, even though he knelt in parliament before a picture of the sovereign and asked forgiveness. Palace sources, though, have let it be known that Veera's remarks were deemed harmless. That could greatly aid his defense against the charges...